The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Two top news stories dominated our newspapers this week and either of them may make it to our news item of the year. The first exploded…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 7 May – Sunday 14 May: Last Sunday, foreign ministers of the Arab League member states agreed to reinstate Syria as a full member of the organisation…
The World That Was
Sunday 30 April – Sunday 7 May: Adrian Olivier, In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two drones targeted the Kremlin complex of buildings in Moscow, the attack being caught…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 23 April – Sunday 30 April On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden finally and formally announced his running for a second term as President of the United…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, In China, quarter 1 GDP growth has been higher than expected at 4.5% beating the estimates of 4% growth from a Reuters poll of economists. Chinese consumers went…
Lies, lies and more lies.
Will Keys, Oh, Tucker Carlson, the darling of Fox News, got an invitation from GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take a trip to Washington, D.C. and view the Congressional videos…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier Sunday 9 April – Sunday 16 April On Monday there was a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. A lone gunman who was a…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 2 April – Sunday 9 April Last Sunday OPEC+ (the thirteen OPEC members and 10 other countries, the most important of which is Russia) announced a surprise…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again Last Friday Business Day featured an editorial “SA spiralling and into a gangster state” The murders, rapes and robberies are simply too terrifying for words and…
The Silk Road Project & The Ukraine War
Will Keys, Have you asked yourself: What is the US geopolitical interest in Ukraine? “When did it start, what are the motives, and importantly why Ukraine?” On 31 August 2021,…